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Someday I WILL buy that thing.

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Not if I buy it first!

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* lists one for 1 billion *

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Now that's just not nice.

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Didn't you mean to write:

* lists one for 999,999,999 *

I heavily prefer playing tri-form on my PB whereas my WS is actually mostly dwarf/nova and pops into human to Stygian, Eclipse and other such activities but I don't linger in human form on him and Stygian Circle covers him nicely.

So if you plan to play any amount of time in human you can safely invest in Stamina if you like or you can add some invention enhancements to increase your recovery (though I prefer to do both).

Basic plot size, make a room to put put the enhancement bin it and I think you may need an oversight room with the combo unit but I am not certain about that part.

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Someday I WILL buy that thing.

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Not if I buy it first!

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* lists one for 1 billion *

I don't expect a fix this week but I wouldn't be surprised if they fix it and patch it along with other things by next Tuesday.

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My server would allow you to beat up contacts who gave you missions you didn't like.

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Would we get a power to do that which would be smashing them with a Fed Ex package?

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I am happy with this change even with my lvl 50 fire/psi though I was not any where near perma-dom with him. I can imagine those players might be dissatisfied.

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What makes you think he's not being serious? And what difference does it make?

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Because, I have serious ideas and thoughts about mmos. If this is just a thread to be a thread then I won't put my thoughts into words. If it is a discussion meant to provoke thoughts and ideas about a server ruleset for what could be then yes I'll contribute my thoughts.

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he asked you to post server rulesets

what part of that request do you not understand, it is not a hard concept to grasp

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Don't be insulting. I'm sick of responses like these on these forums.

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I was just going to ask if you weren't objecting to the kind of responses on the forums that you have been making in this thread.

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Mine would be as far away as possible from yours.


...and women would have nipples.

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I'd have cried if you didn't say that.

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The snipe fails in such situations because the constantly refreshing suppression field debuff interrupts it, fyi.

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And rest and a stalker's assassin strike and others.

If I were going to solo it, I would take nova. If I were planning to team, I probably wouldn't bother because it doesn't take that long to get to 20.

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But a few posts in even a backwater forum will get thousands more doing the same, which then will show up in the devs datamining.

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You have a drastically inflated opinion of the power of the Market Forum.

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There every reason to thnk there is a casue and effect going on.

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except that there isn't, because Castle sez it's a bug.

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Its amazing the response you get from a reasonably worded question/commnent in the right place, isn't it ?

Im happy it is noted as a bug, hope its a quick fix.

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I don't. I still have my 100M one to sell.

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I just don't get any sense of risk at all in the game other than wasted time if something doesn't work out. For example unable to complete a task force or some such event.

Death is meaningless in the game.

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FYI, Rejolt reported no rewards in Warburg PvP--presumably he meant no inf/prestige, he didn't specify. But if that's the case, I think that would indicate this is a bug rather than an intentional stealth change.

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Or a stop gap fix until they come up with another solution.

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My mastermind made quite a bit afk farming in St. Martial. There's this road where lots of Freaks and Wailers wander in and my bots blasted them.

Granted I had to come by and click the spacebar once in a while but I also had to setup my arena battles and summon my pets once every half hour also. The MM move was much easier and at the time very profitable.

But I would add your experiences you listed where you did so well on Sunday would be a bit on the extremely good side. I went over 2 hours with no drops in the arena on Friday and was about to give up when I got one.

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2 hours?? How many kills did you get per hour? I was getting ~44 per 30-min run and still managed to net ~1.5 per hour.

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I was averaging 50 kills in 30 minutes on all my runs. It as almost always 50 with a few hitting 51 and 52.

But that is the random drop at its best. I also had a run where I got one in every 30 minute run. However as I wrote elsewhere 2 of those drops were only worth 1 million (red side). Before reading this I was hoping for a 100 million payday on my last one for sale which I will probably arrive home to get and see it flipped for 200M.

My mastermind made quite a bit afk farming in St. Martial. There's this road where lots of Freaks and Wailers wander in and my bots blasted them.

Granted I had to come by and click the spacebar once in a while but I also had to setup my arena battles and summon my pets once every half hour also. The MM move was much easier and at the time very profitable.

But I would add your experiences you listed where you did so well on Sunday would be a bit on the extremely good side. I went over 2 hours with no drops in the arena on Friday and was about to give up when I got one.

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EDIT - Oh and btw, it's entirely possible they turned it off for now until they figure out how to handle it.

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You mean, like they did with the Cathedral of Pain Trial and base raids? Yeah, if that's the case I wouldn't expect to see them back anytime in the next few years.

I'm almost wishing I'd held onto all the PvP IOs I sold, because I know I could probably get double what I sold them for now.

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Word. I am very sorry I sold mine over the weekend. I hope my last one remains unsold so I can pull it down and wait.

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Can't say we didn't see it coming after it got blabbed and then some on the market boards. I was actually VERY surprised to see so many people boasting about how much money they were making from a pretty obvious...not working as intended situation.

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what's obvious about it?
they're PvP IO's, people were getting them in a PvP environment.

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Going afk for 30 mins and coming back with a drop worth 600m inf is pretty obviously an exploit imo.

I appreciate that you'd like the devs to be more specific about it, and I appreciate that the way they handles borderline stuff in the past was terrible...but comon, you're not fooling me with this charade. AFK farming of the most valuable recipes in the game is an exploit.

EDIT - Oh and btw, it's entirely possible they turned it off for now until they figure out how to handle it.

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But why is it so valuable? Players want it and are willing to pay for it but they remain rare enough to justify a high price.

And though someone might get that 600M drop, they may also get one of several 1M drops.

Over the course of 2 days I got 10 drops which (red side) were worth aroudn 265M. I never got any worth more than 100M and only one at that.

If the issue is AFK farming, then really that is what they need to fix. This would be yet another baby out with the bathwater fix otherwise.

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Wonder if they'll ban a bunch of "exploiters" for farming the arena.

Since, ya know, we should have JUST KNOWN it was wrong.

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Was your moral compass spinning?

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I guess we just need to take turns being killed and rezzed in the PvP zones instead. That would be so much harder. They really need to hire that 5 year old kid before implementing changes to stop abuse.

You know that. I know that. Pretty much everyone knows that. That still doesn't mean that isn't why they did it.

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Given how easy it is to farm in the arena... I'm thinking "not a bug." (I'd have two firetanks, one sitting on the respawn spot of the other, swap once you get a recipe, but I haven't given it much thought.)

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It's just another attempt to get players to the PvP zones.

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Is that why they added all kinds of arena badges?



This was my way of IO'ing out all my 50s that I have shelved for so long. Looks like I get to scratch PvP IO farming off my list of reasons I still play.

Damn, my list is smaller than I thought.

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I am trying to come up with a way to say the following that won't be taken as a dev slam so please understand that is not my meaning.

Badges is the responsibility of different devs than IOs, I think, so that would explain the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing kind of event.

Alternatively the badges were added to get people to use the arena since the rewards were going to get removed.

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I am a man with a large, quixotic bladder.

... There's some need for me to recast that sentence.

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well, certainly if you combine the streams of many you can have an effect...

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Don't cross the streams.

With my characters created since I9, I simply sell the drops I don't want and have a fistfull of inf by level 40-50.

I bid low and wait and do not pay buy it now prices for the stuff I want.

With my old pre-I9 characters, they struggle but common IOs work very well as do the cheaper IOs. I just ignore seeking set bonuses.

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Given how easy it is to farm in the arena... I'm thinking "not a bug." (I'd have two firetanks, one sitting on the respawn spot of the other, swap once you get a recipe, but I haven't given it much thought.)

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It's just another attempt to get players to the PvP zones.

Check your options. There is something about mouseover which is not specific to IOs. It's an all or nothing kind of thing I believe.